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Things got spicy at a Republican county campaign event in Perryville, Missouri, last Friday, in an expletive-filled confrontation that was caught on video. State Sen. Denny Hoskins cursed out Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, calling him...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 02:15 PM PDT
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke with alleged conman and former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon on his “War Room” show Monday. The interview was what anthropologists might call … bananas .�
by Walter Einenkel
192 comments
on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 11:45 AM PDT
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem did her best to avoid discussing abortion rights during an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday. When asked about her state’s near-total abortion ban —which ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 12:15 PM PDT
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On Friday, President Joe Biden gave a nearly 20-minute speech to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Construction and Maintenance at its conference in Washington, D.C., touching on ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz spoke with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Friday about how after months of Republican disarray , foreign aid packages for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan will finally be brought to the House ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Donald Trump attacked late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel in an early morning all-over-the-map social media post Wednesday. That night, Kimmel told his audience that he learned about Trump’s latest attack on him from all the text messages waiting...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 03:45 PM PDT
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The Republican Party’s attempted impeachment fiasco and beleaguered House Speaker Mike Johnson were the subjects of late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue Wednesday night. Colbert observed that while the House Republicans...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 12:14 PM PDT
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A House Oversight Committee hearing �into China’s “political warfare” against the United States went off the rails Wednesday when Republican Rep. James Comer interrupted Democratic Rep. Jamie ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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Late-night talk show hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert tackled Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial, which kicked off on Monday . Kimmel joked that the “trial is expected to last six ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 02:30 PM PDT
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Most people know that twice-impeached former president Donald Trump spent Monday in a New York courthouse for the first day of his criminal trial for allegedly falsifying business records in connection to hush money payments to adult film actress...
by Walter Einenkel
54 comments
on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 02:30 PM PDT
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On Thursday, CNN’s Brianna Keilar broke down exactly how Donald Trump and his Republican Party are to blame for an archaic Civil War-era abortion ban that was revived in Arizona this week. “...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 12:56 PM PDT
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On Wednesday night’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” the comedian focused his always worthwhile Closer Look segment on Donald Trump's damage control video on abortion. "Donald Trump is desperately trying to convince people that he's not an extremist on...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 04:15 PM PDT
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President Joe BIden sat down with Univision reporter Enrique Acevedo in the Oval Office for an wide-ranging interview that ran Tuesday evening. The interview comes after months of well-deserved criticism over an “exclusive” puff-piece interview Acevedo...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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Donald Trump released a video Monday proclaiming a hodgepodge of undercooked positions on abortion. Rachel Maddow broke down the traditional media’s failure to convey Trump’s cowardice, incoherence, and dishonesty. She recited a number of muted...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 12:43 PM PDT
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Donald Trump’s campaign reported pulling in $50 million dollars at a megadonor extravaganza last weekend held by billionaire hedge fund investor, and longtime Trump supporter John Paulson at his ...
by Walter Einenkel
86 comments
on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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Donald Trump started Monday by staking his official incoherent position on abortion in a too-many-minutes-long speech packed with lies. Like ending Roe v. Wade was something that “all legal ...
by Walter Einenkel
72 comments
on Mon Apr 08, 2024 at 01:43 PM PDT
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Right-wing strategist and Fox News contributor Kellyanne Conway has been showing up on various programs to try out her newest line of attack messaging: Democratic politicians don’t say “thoughts ...
by Walter Einenkel
226 comments
on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 03:15 PM PDT
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On Tuesday night’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” the comedian zeroed in on Donald Trump and the MAGA-world’s Easter weekend meltdowns, as well as Trump’s Truth Social stock collapse.� ...
by Walter Einenkel
53 comments
on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 04:15 PM PDT
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National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby swatted down Fox News nepo baby Peter Doocy’s attempts to use the tragic murder of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia to feed right-wing hysteria about border security during Tuesday’s White House press briefing....
by Walter Einenkel
99 comments
on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Republicans are desperate to get out the vote this November any way they can—and that includes voting by mail. “We’ve got to get every one of our voters to vote, no matter the method,” Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley told the...
by Walter Einenkel
163 comments
on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 02:23 PM PDT
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